|
Partitions, Compartments and Portals: Cave Development in internally impounded karst masses.Keywords: impounded karst , speleogenesis in steeply dipping limestones , Australia Abstract: Dykes and other vertical bodies can act as aquicludes within bodies of karst rock. These partitions separate isolated bodies of soluble rock called compartments. Speleogenetically each compartment will behave as a small impounded-karst until the partition becomes breached. Breaches through partitions, portals, allow water, air and biota including humans to pass between sections of caves that were originally isolated.
|